Alistair MacLean · 1959 · survival

Alistair MacLean's 1959 thriller. An airliner crashes on the Greenland ice cap, far off course, and Dr Peter Mason's little research team hauls the survivors to their buried station - only to find the crash was sabotage and a killer walks among the rescued. With the radio smashed and the food gone, Mason must lead them on a desperate trek across the ice to the distant coast.

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   The Greenland ice cap

   High on the Greenland ice cap, Dr Peter Mason's research team watches an airliner crash out of the night. They haul the survivors to their station - then find the plane was sabotaged, and one of the rescued is a murderer.

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   Sondre Stromfjord

   With the radio smashed and no food to spare, Mason loads the survivors onto an ancient snow-tractor and drives west across the ice - a trek through blizzard and killing cold, with an enemy hidden among them.

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   Uplavnik

   Their only hope is Uplavnik, the expedition's coastal base three hundred miles away - and as pursuers close in for the secret the wrecked plane carried, Mason must get his charges down off the ice alive.